Community Action/Research :: Fall Calendar

Salutations --

This message is an update and personal invitation to the KM Cluster Fall
2004 gatherings.

The KM Cluster is a federated community action-research network  for
business leaders of the knowledge economy. Regional gatherings are led by
local sponsors. 

KM Cluster Testimonials

Local sponsors are accomplished leaders of the knowledge economy. These
leaders learn from the future through open conversation and collaboration.
They recognize excellence and create opportunity. You are welcome and
encouraged to join in the conversation. All are welcome.

Upcoming Gatherings and Conversations for Fall 2004:  Registration now
open!

San Francisco and Silicon Valley KM Cluster: Enterprise Social Network
Analysis, September 10, 2004

Southern California KM Cluster: Innovation Networks, October 8, 2004

New England KM Cluster: 
Networks to Net Worth: Realizing the Value of Social Networks, October 15,
2004

New York City KM Cluster:  Enterprise Social Network Analysis, October 19,
2004

Mid-Atlantic KM Cluster:  Enterprise Social Network Analysis,  
November 12, 2004

Visit the KM Cluster website for agendas, online registration and further
details. 

KM Cluster Agendas

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Enterprise Social Network Analysis
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The KM Cluster is extremely pleased and honored to announce Valdis Krebs
will lead a day-long tutorial on Enterprise Social Network Analysis (SNA)
in downtown San Francisco on Sept 10, in New York City on October 19th and
Washington, DC on November 12, 2004.  

Fluency in Enterprise SNA is a required core competency of all
knowledge-based organizations. SNA is crucial plank in the enterprise
knowledge platform and competitive capabilities infrastructure.

How to do Social Network Analysis

Valdis is among a small handful of top worldwide practioners in enterprise
SNA. His professional career has focused on SNA in the enterprise, global
organizations and other institutions. His offerings are highly practical;
they are all about achieving timely knowledge-based benefits and
advantages of enterprise SNA while working with real managers in real
business. 

Valdis will walk you through enterprise SNA in great practical detail. This
includes many practical, real life enterprise SNA success stories from
respected organizations such as IBM, Aventis, CapitalOne, Center for
Disease Control, Lucent Technologies, Shell, Rubbermaid, Deloitte, Jaakko
Pöyry, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz-Allen, KPMG and University of Michigan
Business School. 

Immediate benefits of Enterprise SNA included: 

• Lower cost through far better balance and use of existing resources;
• Improve financial performance by optimizing contribution of top
performers;
• Focus attention on the importance of tacit knowledge and intangible
assets;
• Uncover your best knowledge resources and conduits in the organization;
• Achieve fundamental improvements and speed in innovation and R&D.

Enterprise SNA shows how knowledge work is accomplished. 

Enterprise SNA Benefits

In addition to the tutorial and narrative technique, this hands-on
gathering will use InFlow 3.0 Network Mapping Software. This robust,
friendly technology is used to effectively map and measure knowledge
networks, flows, and relationships in organizations, communities and other
complex human systems. Paired with proven enterprise SNA techniques, these
practical methods are instrumental in building and optimizing the dynamic
knowledge ecosystems essential to productivity, innovation and the future
of all knowledge-based organizations.

Each Enterprise SNA participant receives a fully-functional, 75-node
participant copy of InFlow Software to quickly bootstrap you SNA pilot
projects. 

As usual, all materials, meals, refreshments, registration, shared services
and other logistics are covered by your Fall 2004 KM Cluster tuition. 

This is among the very first commercially available SNA training with a
pure and practical focus on the enterprise. It is intended for
practitioners, executives, R&D directors, HR professionals,
line-of-business managers, vendors, researchers, enterprise architects,
educators, consultants and everyone needing a fast start for their
enterprise SNA initiatives.

 You are encouraged to register early because like the May Social Networks
Summit, this event will fill-up very fast. There is a 10% discount until
August 20, 2004 for San Francisco. Secure pre-registration online is
required.

Online Registration

Enterprise Social Network Analysis
http://r.vresp.com/?KMCluster/f069ce0bf8/211392/fe822c4a96/66fcec8

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KM Cluster -- Online Conversation and Collaboration
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More than 150 people have joined the very popular KM Cluster -- Online
Conversation and Collaboration Environment. 

This Web collaboration environment includes all event memory from the KM
Cluster's far-flung action/research network gatherings. 

For example, in this state-of-the-art collaborative ecosystem you will find
the dazzling and vivid Strategic Visual Journalism tableaus, all
presentations and event monographs. You will also uncover papers, rosters
and related documents and interactions.

To join your colleagues and peers in this growing and popular
action/research network, use the link below. 

KM Cluster -- Online Conversation and Collaboration
http://r.vresp.com/?KMCluster/915c0606f3/211392/fe822c4a96/66fcec8

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Join the KM Cluster conversation. Learn with your enterprise colleagues,
top academics, leading consultancies, global thought leaders and
innovative vendors. All are welcome. 

The KM Cluster depends on diversity, multiformity of thinking, conversation
and collaboration. Here is a link to just a sample of the diverse
organizations and communities that help lead the KM Cluster. 

KM Cluster Member Organizations

Participation in KM Cluster gatherings is limited to maximize interaction
and building relationships. You are encouraged to register today to
guarantee your reservation. Pre-registration on-line is required. You may
invite your colleagues, clients, prospects and other associates to
register and participate. All are welcome.

It is effective for members of the same organization to attended together,
particularly for the Enterprise SNA gatherings. This allows continuous
conversation to refract and anneal the learnings. 

KM Cluster Testimonials

The modest KM Cluster event tuition covers meals, refreshments, materials,
registration, equipment and logistics.  Events fill-up fast because of the
low-cost. It is good to register early. There are no discounts.


Respectfully,

Fall 2004 KM Cluster Regional Sponsors

-and-

John T. Maloney
Knowledge Management Cluster  
www.kmcluster.com 


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